archipelago books

published the translation of the book i just finished reading. which if any of these titles have you read? which should i read next?

http://www.archipelagobooks.org/catalog.php

Diaries of Exile
by Yannis Ritsos
trans. from Greek
by Edmund Keeley and Karen Emmerich

Mama Leone
by Miljenko Jergović
trans. from Croatian
by David Williams

The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico
by Antonio Tabucchi
trans. from Italian
by Tim Parks

Wheel With a Single Spoke
by Nichita Stănescu
trans. from Romanian
by Sean Cotter

Prehistoric Times
by Eric Chevillard
trans. from French
by Alyson Waters

My Struggle: Book One
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
trans. from Norwegian
by Don Bartlett

Book of My Mother
by Albert Cohen
trans. from French
by Bella Cohen

As Though She Were Sleeping
by Elias Khoury
trans. from Arabic
by Marilyn Booth

Mister Blue
by Jacques Poulin
trans. from French
by Sheila Fischman

Poems
by Cyprian Norwid
trans. from Polish
by Danuta Borchardt

In the Presence of Absence
by Mahmoud Darwish
trans. from Arabic
by Sinan Antoon

In Red
by Magdalena Tulli
trans. from Polish
by Bill Johnston

From the Observatory
by Julio Cortázar
trans. from Spanish
by Anne McLean

The Chukchi Bible
by Yuri Rytkheu
trans. from Russian
by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse

A Mind at Peace
by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
trans. from Turkish
by Erdag Göknar

Stone Upon Stone
by Wiesław Myśliwski
trans. from Polish
by Bill Johnston

Job
by Joseph Roth
trans. from German
by Ross Benjamin

Journal of an Ordinary Grief
by Mahmoud Darwish
trans. from Arabic
by Ibrahim Muhawi

My Kind of Girl
by Buddhadeva Bose
trans. from Bengali
by Arunava Sinha

The Twin
by Gerbrand Bakker
trans. from Dutch
by David Colmer

Eline Vere
by Louis Couperus
trans. from Dutch
by Ina Rilke

To Mervas
by Elisabeth Rynell
trans. from Swedish
by Victoria Häggblom

White Masks
by Elias Khoury
trans. from Arabic
by Maia Tabet

Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer
by Ernst Weiss
trans. from German
by Joel Rotenberg

Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist
by Heinrich von Kleist
trans. from German
by Peter Wortsman

A Time for Everything
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
trans. from Norwegian
by James Anderson

Translation is a Love Affair
by Jacques Poulin
trans. from French
by Sheila Fischman

Intimate Stranger
by Breyten Breytenbach

A River Dies of Thirst: journals
by Mahmoud Darwish
trans. from Arabic
by Catherine Cobham

The Salt Smugglers
by Gérard de Nerval
trans. from French
by Richard Sieburth

Plants Don't Drink Coffee
by Unai Elorriaga
trans. from Basque
by Amaia Gabantxo

Wonder
by Hugo Claus
trans. from Dutch
by Michael Henry Heim

Mouroir
by Breyten Breytenbach

Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish
by Breyten Breytenbach

The Great Weaver from Kashmir
by Halldór Laxness
trans. from Icelandic
by Philip Roughton

Tranquility
by Attila Bartis
trans. from Hungarian
by Imre Goldstein

All One Horse
by Breyten Breytenbach

Mafeking Road
by Herman Charles Bosman

Small Lives
by Pierre Michon
trans. from French
by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays

Mute Objects of Expression
by Francis Ponge
trans. from French
by Lee Fahnestock

Travel Pictures
by Heinrich Heine
trans. from German
by Peter Wortsman

Hyperion
by Friedrich Hölderlin
trans. from German
by Ross Benjamin

The Waitress Was New
by Dominique Fabre
trans. from French
by Jordan Stump

Yalo
by Elias Khoury
trans. from Arabic
by Peter Theroux

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: A Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseilles
by Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop
trans. from Spanish
by Anne McLean

Flaw
by Magdalena Tulli
trans. from Polish
by Bill Johnston

Spring Tides
by Jacques Poulin
trans. from French
by Sheila Fischman

Mandarins (Stories)
by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
trans. from Japanese
by Charles de Wolf

Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie of Maurice Scève
by Maurice Scève
trans. from French
by Richard Sieburth

Of Song and Water
by Joseph Coulson

new poems
by Tadeusz Rózewicz
trans. from Polish
by Bill Johnston

Yann Andrea Steiner
by Marguerite Duras
trans. from French
by Mark Polizzotti

Posthumous Papers of a Living Author
by Robert Musil
trans. from German
by Peter Wortsman

Poems (1945-1971)
by Miltos Sachtouris
trans. from Greek
by Karen Emmerich

Stroke by Stroke
by Henri Michaux
trans. from French
by Richard Sieburth

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
by Mahmoud Darwish
trans. from Arabic
by Jeffrey Sacks

Gate of the Sun
by Elias Khoury
trans. from Arabic
by Humphrey Davies

Moving Parts
by Magdalena Tulli
trans. from Polish
by Bill Johnston

My Body and I
by Rene Crevel
trans. from French
by Robert Bononno

The Novices of Sais
by Novalis
trans. from German
by Ralph Manheim

Diary of Andrés Fava
by Julio Cortázar
trans. from Spanish
by Anne McLean

Telegrams of the Soul
by Peter Altenberg
trans. from German
by Peter Wortsman

A Dream in Polar Fog
by Yuri Rytkheu
trans. from Russian
by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse

Three Generations
by Yom Sang-seop
trans. from Korean
by Yu Young-nan

Education by Stone
by João Cabral de Melo Neto
trans. from Portugese
by Richard Zenith

Moscardino
by Enrico Pea
trans. from Italian
by Ezra Pound

Lenz
by Georg Büchner
trans. from German
by Richard Sieburth

Bacacay
by Witold Gombrowicz
trans. from Polish
by Bill Johnston

Palafox
by Eric Chevillard
trans. from French
by Wyatt Mason

The Serpent of Stars
by Jean Giono
trans. from French
by Jody Gladding

Dreams and Stones
by Magdalena Tulli
trans. from Polish
by Bill Johnston

Fossil Sky
by David Hinton

Auguste Rodin
by Rainer Maria Rilke
trans. from German
by Daniel Slager

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan
by Meng Hao-Jan
trans. from Chinese
by David Hinton

Sarajevo Marlboro
by Miljenko Jergović

The Vanishing Moon
by Joseph Coulson

some of these look pretty interesting, wish i didn't have so many other books i haven't gotten to yet

Peter Altenberg's _Telegrams of the Soul_ is a really enjoyable collection of short pieces; letter-like observations or essays from Vienna café-life. At one point he visits an amusement park and befriends some somewhat embarrassed Africans that are on exhibit, but mostly it's about fairly inconsequential but charming stuff. Some may find his willful eccentricity — and fondness of exclamation marks! — annoying, but do give it a look.

Dunno what you should read next, but personally I'm planning to read Eric Chevillard's _Prehistoric Times_ and Ernst Weiss's _Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer_ fairly soon.
_A Mind at Peace_ by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar was brought up by Joshua Cohen in that article he did about Ulysses-like books from various countries. Ah, here it is: The Heirs of Joyce's Ulysses.

My Struggle: Book One
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
trans. from Norwegian
by Don Bartlett

havent read this by my gf raved about it

yeah the nyer review made me curious about that at the time, but then i totally forgot about it.

The whole set of six books were really well-received here, for what it's worth. So I don't think you have to worry about it getting crap if you do decide to read them.
I've never ever seen a publishing sensation like this before -- goddamn, the papers covered these books seemingly constantly for two-three years. Particularly the first year when the first three books came out. Interviews with and articles by just about anyone mentioned in the damn things, endless opinion-pieces about the morality of it all, and lots and lots of speculation about what the next volumes might bring. I vaguely recall an essay signed by a bunch of his family members calling it "Judaslitteratur".
Tiring, really. Kinda imagine this is how Americans might feel about _Freedom_, except even more so. (Well, not quite; this actually looks good)

yeah, i just finished reading my struggle, it was awesome

i would be interested in reading some of that press, actually. particularly interviews with the characters, his first wife, his children, brother. guessing it's all in norwegian?

yeah the nyer review made me curious about that at the time, but then i totally forgot about it.

haha yeah the review is the reason i picked it up - i didnt really like it though, i kept thinking about how much better it would be as a fictional book within a book where you only got disjointed pieces of it instead of getting all the sentences in endless coils

Yeah, my struggle was an insanely big deal in denmark as well. Stuff like saying it would be as era-defining as Sorrows of Young Werther, and professors writing about how fiction was impossible afterwards. I don't really care for realism, and it sounds as if the language is pretty poor in the later sections, so it's a bit down my list. I still have eight volumes of proust to get through, for instance.

I've read and liked Cortázar, Musil, Novalis and Rilke from that list, but none of the works listed. I'd check them out anyway.

Yeah, I'm afraid so, unless some enterprising soul has taken on collecting and translating a heap of it someplace. I couldn't find any, at least. I imagine someone might publish a collection of it at some point, though perhaps not before most of the books have made it to English. I'm afraid I'm not quite up to the task of doing any of the sort myself, and I don't imagine the papers would be too pleased if someone just posted translations of their stuff without permission.

If you're really curious, and incredibly patient, I suppose you could give Google Translate a shot. A couple of pieces of interest might be this overview
Knausgård for Dummies
and this interview with Knausgård's high school teacher: My life as a character in a novel
I couldn't find the article by the heap of family letters, which isn't online at the paper's (Klassekampen's) website.

Hrm, first link doesn't seem to work. Let's try again: Knausgård for Dummies

i would bump it above proust if i were you, it was a breeze i read it in like 2 sittings? idk i thought it was pretty dope, surprised at the negative reaction tbh! i thought it had a great flow & you find yourself getting really into all the banality and detail, little digressions, nice feeling of recognition at his little thoughts and insecurities. i didn't think too much about it being non-fiction while reading it, aside from a couple things like how he keeps referring to his awful memory while writing a book with all this minutiae from twenty years older, and of course wondering about how people in the book reacted to it (particularly to things like "i told my wife i loved her, and wondered if it was really true" or when he talks about hating his children)

thx for the links oystein

Like, all six volumes in 2 sittings? Have they all been translated already? It's more vols 3, 4 and 5 I've heard bad things about. But yeah, I will get around to it. The translation of Proust is pretty slow anyway, they just released no 6 out of 13, a year after no 5. Anyways, this wasn't the proust-thread.

i just finished 'bacacay' - i love gombrowicz's loopy polish absurdism but he's probably not for all tastes

nah just the first

I liked In Red a whole, whole lot - From the Observatory less. These guys are great anyway imo. I wanna get to Stone Upon Stone and The Chukchi Bible this year if I can. In Red anyway doesn't take more than an afternoon and is a really absorbing poem of a book

cool i'll checkitout

reading My Struggle vol. 1 and man is it slow - amazed you got through it in 2 sittings. I like some of the banality of it (and for once don't feel much guilt about skipping some slow episodes I don't particularly care about) and enjoy the book while I read it, but I never ever feel compelled to pick it up. It's been on my bedstand for a month now

very unfortunate that a german translation of my struggle would prob have to recycle the title: mein kampf in order to be accurate. more likely they'd flip to an entirely different title.

I'm reading it in French. Title here is "Death of a Father"

Yeah, I took a look at Amazon.de now. Looks like they're doing single word titles for each book. The two I could find were "Sterben" (die) and "Lieben" (love.)

I just got Jan Jacob Slauerhoff's _The Forbidden Kingdom_ in the mail.
I've only browsed it aimlessly, not started reading it, but the 16th century chapters have a charming narrator. On poetry: (in Portugal, I guess?) "That women, who have nothing to do but weave, should alternate this with embroidering on the cloth of language, in imitation of others of their sex at the countless Italian courts, is all well and good. But that men should also participate in such vanity when there are still so many countries to conquer, to discover, and the Moors are still nestling just across the water, is worse."
Exactly how I feel about Norwegian poetry. Sweden is right fucking there, and here we're sitting around dribbling and scribbling about the infantilizing effect of oil-money on our population? Get thee to an armory!

Oh, by the way, amazon.com are selling _Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer_ for just $6.80 right now, for some reason.

good interview w/ karl ove knausgaard here - http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/07/03/completely-without-dignity-an-interview-with-karl-ove-knausgaard/

i'm half way through my struggle now & im still not sure how i feel about it

yeah I put it "on pause" - let's see if I ever get back to it. I liked the idea and somehow I relate so much to it, it's just a shame that it's such a drag to get through it.

Peter Altenberg's _Telegrams of the Soul_ is a really enjoyable collection of short pieces; letter-like observations or essays from Vienna café-life. At one point he visits an amusement park and befriends some somewhat embarrassed Africans that are on exhibit, but mostly it's about fairly inconsequential but charming stuff. Some may find his willful eccentricity — and fondness of exclamation marks! — annoying, but do give it a look.

Just read this--it was really lovely.

Cool -- I'd love to read more by him, but so far my german is much too schlecht. Haven't gotten around to the Slauerhoff I mentioned upthread.

Oh, this was in the newsletter they sent out today:
"To celebrate our website launch, we are offering a special 50% off coupon for today only. Act quickly! It expires tomorrow, July 9. This coupon is valid for your whole purchase, so buy as many books as your shelves can bear. Simply type in LAUNCH2013 at checkout."

Scandinavia doesn’t have a tradition of tell-all memoirs, but it does have diarists. Olav H. Hauge, the Norwegian poet, wrote a three-thousand-page diary which was published after his death, when you were about twenty-six. Did you have a strong reaction to it?

Yes, I did. I read it very intensely over a short period of time, during a kind of crisis in my life. I was obsessed with it. And it was very strange because he wrote his diaries from 1916, or something, until 1990, so it covers his whole life. And he was basically only on his farm. Nothing happens in his life at all. And he really writes about nothing. Nothing is going on there except for him thinking, and harvesting apples.

sounds really good to me!

I just went to their website, ordered 3 paperbacks of poetry and only paid $18.40, including shipping. Yippee!

free shipping = $6.80 heine, sweet

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/dec/05/zadie-smith-man-vs-corpse/

on knausgaard (and tao lin)

by zadie smith!

Thanks flopson! Somehow she has a gift for non-fiction tangents (the Joni Mitchell meltdown maybe most notoriously, but even there the vision of her vision somehow doesn't burn my corneas). I want to check her new collection of essays too ("Joy" is fave so far).

Lenz
by Georg Büchner
trans. from German
by Richard Sieburth

Interview and reading by Sieburth and its a fantastic broadcast! I read the first para of Lenz alongside Reddick's version for Penguin and I felt it held up well. Love the idea of the edition -- to centre this as THE piece of prose for that particular time -- although in the intro of the Penguin its very much acknowledged that no one was writing like this in 1835. Still, would be tempted to pick this up 2nd hand.

Things I want to pick up are Hyperion, Novalis, maybe Pla although I'll give him a go on NYRB first.

btw if you go ctrl + "archipelago" there is a ton of good stuff to try out.

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Thank you comrade!

(I found it via James Morrison's twitter btw..)

Forgot there was an archipelago thread!